The Guards and Princes arrive at St Paul's during Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

The official ticketing for the seats in the stands on the day of the Jubilee was plagued by fraudsters. However, even those lucky enough to purchase a genuine ticket noted the high prices. This cameraman - William Hunt, working on behalf of RW Paul - must have paid a great deal for this position. Here, he films the Guards arriving at St Paul's followed - for the briefest moment at the end of the film - by the foreign and English princes.

ACTUALITY. Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.



Part of the Diamond Jubilee procession, viewed over the heads of Guards, as it
comes into St Paul's Churchyard, showing the foreign princes on horseback, the
Queen's carriage and escort.



Note: Taken by Mr Hunt, one of Robert Paul's staff, 22 June 1897. Mr Hunt was
positioned on the north side of St Paul's Churchyard, Paul himself on the
south side. Twelve separate films were made of the procession by Paul, of
which the NFTVA holds four.



Refs:
John Barnes, The Rise of the Cinema in Great Britain, pp. 181-2 [illus. p 182,
no 93d], 230.
National Film Archive, Catalogue of Silent News films, N.20.